Newark Mayor Cory Booker notably used Twitter to help stranded residents and assure citizens.

Post storm flights assisting stranded residents, delivering food, water and medical supplies, and surveying aid-to-navigation damage, total 52 hours.

Missions focused on evacuating stranded residents, door-to-door health and welfare checks, transportation of vital supplies and provision of generators.

The eastern Washington mission focused on snow removal from roads and public school buildings, while western Washington missions focused on evacuating stranded residents, door-to-door health and welfare checks, transportation of vital supplies.

In Mobile, Ala., National Guard troops were trying to reach stranded residents, said Scott Adcock, a spokesman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

In Brunswick and New Hanover counties, North Carolina, officials readied shelters on September 29 to accommodate stranded residents unable to access their homes.

Rescue teams flew nearly 50 missions in response to calls for help from stranded residents.

All day, television stations broadcast appeals for food and clothing, as well as reports from stranded residents of villages who have yet to be visited by relief workers or who are desperately trying to contact relatives.

The crowd at Houston and West was growing thicker as the day wore on but not particularly with stranded residents.

Yamen Abou Hassan has been driving into town and beyond, to the town of Taibe, to pick up stranded residents who have neither the means nor the ability to leave on their own.